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On 27 January 2013, the DRDO conducted the 11th successful underwater test firing of the K-15 medium range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) offthe coast of Visakhapatnam in the Bay of Bengal. The launch took place from a specially configured underwater pontoon as the launch platform. The K-15, officially designated B-05, with a range in excess of 700 km (the official range numbers are classified) is the submarine-launched version of the landlaunched Shaurya missile that has so far been tested four times. The country's Arihant-class SSBNs will deploy 12 B-05s or four of the much longer-range K-4 missiles, which are still under development.